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FCC Funding Application Notes Paramount Will Be 49.5% Foreign-Owned Post-Merger

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Re: FCC Funding Application Notes Paramount Will Be 49.5% Foreign-Owned Post-Merger

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Post by LocalH »

mandevil wrote: post #54
toast0 wrote: post #6

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Yeah, election promises and post-election behavior aren't really correlated in general. I think this administration is worse than the average, but still. Past talking points are not indicative of future behavior.

It turns out there is extensive research on this, and you are mistaken. Most politicians actually do try to deliver on their promises. They might get stopped, but they try. https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/59403/1/Thomson_etal_AJPS_... for one quick to find example of the literature on this. Most of the research on this was done before Trump entered office. Trump is a wildly unusual political leader, who is signific…

the reason we have bad government is solely because we're stuck in two silos

want real change? vote third party. the problem is the same as that red/blue button thought experiment recently posted to HN. one of the hardest things to do is to get 50% of people to agree with you, so everyone keeps hitting the red button (voting D or R) and nothing changes

Re: FCC Funding Application Notes Paramount Will Be 49.5% Foreign-Owned Post-Merger

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Post by Terr_ »

ecshafer wrote: post #82
hypeatei wrote: post #67

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> a view point largely supported

No, you're playing a rhetorical game, trying to con readers with a switcheroo between pairs of "viewpoints" that aren't actually the same thing at all. For example:

1. "The liberals are everywhere trying to teach our children something wrong! They're telling them men can become pregnant!"

2. "Men--by which I implicitly mean people without the parts for it--cannot become pregnant."

Only the second one common and banal, unless you ask someone with a weird fetish, or perhaps a fan of Schwarzenegger and Danny Devito eager to talk about the film Junior.

In contrast, the first one is not solely a medical belief, but also a claim about what others advocate, and the average American--or average HN commenter--may quite rightly judge you a weirdo for internalizing and repeating it.

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Post by irishcoffee »

Melatonic wrote: post #95
pchristensen wrote: post #48

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California has structural obstacles that don’t fit into partisan politics. Proposition 13 limits property tax collection, which warps housing development and many other factors. Also, California has high incomes, which means Californians pay more federal income tax, and the state receives less back in federal benefits, to the tune of almost $100 billion a year. Those are significant headwinds that the state would sti…

Prop 13 is brought up a lot but it never made any sense to me that it also applies to commercial real estate used for businesses. I can see an argument for single family homes (primary dwellings) but property that large corporations own ? It makes no sense.

Occams razor: it was never about the SFH owners...

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Post by irishcoffee »

ryandrake wrote: post #92
encoderer wrote: post #75

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Totally, like I said right there, it is a great state! But the governance is not great. That was actually the whole point I was making. And getting back to that: The getting things done is abysmal. Taxes are high. Spending is loose. No progress is made on things the state takes on as priorities (housing costs, high speed rail, homelessness). It's just not well managed. But from the "one side good, other side bad" POV…

Is there any example of good State governance to point to, though? Every State is on the spectrum of dysfunction. I'd argue (and I am aware that it is a blatantly partisan point of view) that every additional republican you add to the mix will increase dysfunction. The party's entire M.O. currently is to increase chaos wherever possible, grief the other side, and generally troll everyone not like them; and I say this…

I thought Larry Hogan did pretty well in Maryland. Debate about the surplus he left being a sleight-of-hand or not, I didn't feel that Maryland was dysfunctional.

Baltimore however, yes. Hoping this latest mayor can finish his term without getting arrested for corruption, as is tradition. The city council is worse.

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Post by booleandilemma »

gib444 wrote: post #81
booleandilemma wrote: post #74

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It's a comment on an internet forum, not an encyclopedia article. Or were you being sarcastic? I can't tell anymore :)

Haha yes, sarcasm (I thought it was obvious enough but then again, I am a Brit.)

Lol! Hello from the land of guns and freedom!

Re: FCC Funding Application Notes Paramount Will Be 49.5% Foreign-Owned Post-Merger

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Post by bigbuppo »

BowBun wrote: post #3

I don't understand how decisions like these align with the supposed "America First" rhetoric coming from the same side. Specifically - this deal is being led by the son of the president of the USA who was elected on promises of "bringing jobs back to America" and prioritizing domestic investments. Seems to me like they say one thing, do another, and all of us hold the bag at the end of it all.

They're made out of ~~meat~~ foreign investments.
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